40 IOWA DEPVRTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



gather it up from everywhere ; we drain the country as does a 

 stream. 



A Member: May I ask you another question? Why is it 

 that Iowa feeders can not get as favorable feeding rates as 

 others can in other states. 



Mr. Delano: I can not tell you. I didn't know that was a 

 fact, if it is a fact. 



A Member: I will give you an illustration. We have a farm 

 in Nebraska and one in Iowa. Last fall we were figuring on 

 buying a bunch of calves at Wray, Colorado, taking some of it 

 through to Iowa. We found we could get a through Chicago 

 rate at seven cents, but in Iowa we paid the local rate on top of 

 it, which made a difference of fifteen cents to the Iowa feeder. 

 That is the point we would like to get at. 



Mr. Delano: I wish I knew; I wish [could tell; I don't 

 happen to know about that. I don't know that the gentleman 

 has ever asked for it; if he didn't get it I know he would get a 

 very good reason for it. We do not knowingly do something for 

 the State of Nebraska that we do not do for the State of Iowa. 



Mr. Van Houten : I believe it is usually conceded by every- 

 body that railroad rates should be remunerative. It looks to me 

 like all matters ought to be taken up in forming a basis of com- 

 putation ; not only that, but the question of absolute equ£|,lity 

 between places and individuals. Let me give you an illustra- 

 tion. I bought a valuable animal; he was to be shipped from 

 one railroad to another at Des Moines. When the animal ar- 

 rived at Des Moines I received a telegran from the Q agent that 

 a first class fare should be purchased before the animal would 

 be transferred. I immediately telegraphed to Des Moines to 

 have the animal shipped over the Great Western to Knowlton, 

 to get the animal and bring it home. But not being able to hear 

 whether it had been delivered, I got on the train and came to 

 Des Moines. When I got here I found that the animal had been 

 sent on, and of course, was delivered and taken home. I entered 

 a complaint with the agent, but no attention whatever was paid 

 to it. I entered a complaint with the Railroad Commissioners 

 of Iowa; after about eight months they informed me the rail- 

 roads had agreed not to do that any more. 



I see advertised in the city of Des Moines; I see it in Creston, 

 Council Bluffs and elsewhere, that on the third and first Tues- 

 days there would be one rate plus two dollars to go to certain 



